To ease port congestion, last month, the ports of new york and New Jersey announced that they would impose a new quarterly container imbalance fee (quarterly container imbalance fee) on sea carriers from September 1.

According to One Shipping's latest information, recently, new york and New Jersey ports announced that the fee originally scheduled for September 1 will be delayed.

New York/New Jersey delays implementation of fee for lingering containers

Port officials said that after several discussions with sea carriers in August, many unforeseen effects surfaced.

Last Thursday, port officials talked with the Federal Maritime Commission and planned to implement tariffs in the fourth quarter of this year and issue the first batch of invoices in January next year.

The invoice amount will be based on the carrier's fourth quarter container surplus and its efforts to remove empty containers.

At present, some empty containers have been stored in the port for nearly 30 days.

Since January, the port of new york and New Jersey has had more than 200,000 containers out of balance, so the port decided to impose a new fee to encourage carriers to evacuate stranded full and empty containers.

According to the new regulations, sea carriers in the same period of outbound container traffic must equal or exceed the inbound container traffic of 110%, if they can not do so, ocean carriers will be charged an imbalance of 100 per container fee (excluding rail traffic).

port officials told U.S. shippers that sea carriers were "very engaged and responsive" last month ". They said several sea carriers had pledged to help restore port mobility by actively developing plans to transport empty containers.

According to MarineTraffic data, the ports of new york and New Jersey have 156,000 20-foot containers floating at sea, making them the second most stranded ports on the east coast. Savannah, Ga., has the largest number of containers at 366,000 TEUs; Houston has 143,000 TEUs stacked on anchored boats.

Source: One Shipping